Enigma from Analectic Magazine 1815 Published in Baltimore Chronicle
The text presents a verse riddle about Adam Eve and a hidden answer hinted by a later solution. It references Biblical figures and classical names, with a closing moral about bachelors and matrimonial expectations. The discussion notes the riddle’s playful tone and the themes of lineage and resurrection.
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Analectic Magazine
Baltimore Morning Chronicle
Mother Eve
Adam
From the Desk of Poor Ratert the Scribe
An archival note presents a writer known as Poor Ratert the Scribe sharing observations from a historical desk. The piece frames correspondence, rhetoric, and marginalia as glimpses into daily recordkeeping.
When I Was Jist's Boy and the Grindstone Vision
A reflective tale recalls a boy accosted by a smiling man with an axe who asks him to grind the axe and fetch water. The flattery, the harsh lesson, and the warning about grinding for villains linger as the narrator reflects on deceit, virtue, and public corruption.
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M. Printer
Mao
Tran
Liberty
Tyrant Remarks on Unqualified Officials and Party Grasp
A speaker warns readers about a man elevated into office by party spirit, lacking qualifications to be respectable or useful. He declares the public misguided and doomed to grindstone servitude to a booby.
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Methinks
Offic
Peple
Northumberland Female Academy Announces Spring Session
The Northumberland Female Academy opens a new term May 1 in the green house opposite Dr. S. Jackson's. Texts include Guthrie universal, Murray's geography, Blair lectures, Walker's dictionary abridged, and American Tutor's Assistant. Tuition 75 cents. board for six students at 50 cents per week with lodging offered by E. J. Burr.
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Green House
S. Jackson
Guthrie
Cumming
Northumberland Academy names new principal and opens May ahead
The Northumberland Academy trustees announce Rev James Kay elected principal replacing the late Rev Plumb. Kay brings teaching experience and learning, with plans to open on May 1 for classical and English studies. Tuition fees are reduced to three rates per quarter, with stenography offered at low cost. Boarding available with careful attention. IsraePleasants, James Hepburn. Northumberland February 22, 1822.
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Northumberland Academy
James Kay
Prinipa
Tha
Plumb
Kay
Israel Pleasants
James Hepburn
Northumberland
Prospectus for Publishing by Subscription Narrative of Offerings
A fragmented prospectus outlines publishing by subscription. It references a narrative describing offerings and navels, with unclear context. The readable text suggests a historical advertisement for a subscription-based literary work.
Travels of a Virginia Slave to the East and Back
Wm H Anderson of Virginia describes nineteen years abroad including two and a half years in Arabian slavery. He recounts travels through Arabia Persia Guzerat Hindostan and Windostan with observations on religion laws manners and civil policy. His manuscript includes a map and an introduction and chronicles hardships and rescue returning to Norfolk in January with patronage from officials and scholars.
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Arabia
Egypt
Persia
Guzerat
Crristian Raveller
Anderson
Américan Union
Frederick County
Virginia
Pittsburg
New Orleans
East Indies
Maceira
Cape Ras al Gat
George Johnson
Jefferson County
Persian Gulf
Gazerat
Windostan
Holkar
Poonah
London
Norfolk
Congress
New York Author Announces 500 Page Work for Subscribers
William H. Anderson announces a planned one volume octavo work of about 500 pages priced at three dollars to subscribers. Subscriptions are received by the author and authorized agents nationwide, with Watchman office also accepting subscriptions. Published in 1822.
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William H. Anderson
New York
Mileton
Montgomery Sweinry
Milton
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Eleanor Kelly
Columbia Lodge
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Christopher Mitchell
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Murrew
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Wm. Mehar
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James Loughead
Philip Goodman
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